Open AccessAfrica and the Awakening of the Senses in “L’Africain” by J. M. G. Le Clézio
Author(s) -
Natalia Nielipowicz
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
lubelskie materiały neofilologiczne/lublin studies in modern languages and literature
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2450-4580
pISSN - 0137-4699
DOI - 10.17951/lsmll.2020.44.4.17-26
Subject(s) - subject (documents) , perception , humanities , space (punctuation) , art , anthropology , ethnology , philosophy , linguistics , sociology , epistemology , computer science , library science
This article focuses on issues concerning Central Africa as depicted in the essay by Le Clézio L’Africain (2004) . The geocritical approach to the story told in the piece, will allow us to consider the polisensorism present in the scriptural, and, at times, in the pictorial language by Le Clézio, as all the senses are important and present in his perception of the African landscape. We strive to study the impact of such understanding of space on the development of the subject and its relationship with the world. We also investigate whether this empirical knowledge shapes, to some extent, his ecological attitudes.